Rick Fox gets concrete about planet-friendly cement at Disrupt 2023
The modern world is a concrete jungle, and cement — a binding agent — is concrete’s key ingredient. It’s also one of the least climate-friendly...
WhatsApp launches standalone smartwatch app for Wear OS
WhatsApp has finally launched its standalone app for smartwatches running Google’s Wear OS, after much anticipation and months-long beta testing. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on...
Egnyte continues to grow and an IPO seems inevitable
Egnyte has never been a startup in a hurry and has been content to take a slow, but steady growth trajectory over its 16-year history....
Microsoft, Activision give themselves three more months to close mega-merger
Microsoft and Activision have jointly agreed to extend the deadline to complete their mega merger for a further three months in order, they say, to...
Umbra is a Silicon Valley outsider – they prefer it that way
Umbra co-founder Gabe Dominocielo’s last name is roughly translated from the Latin as “lord of the skies.” It’s a fitting title for the head of...
Hey Look, It’s The Twitter Fail Whale!
Just yesterday I wrote about a new service called API-Status.com that monitors the availability of 26 popular APIs, and today it’s already proven useful for...
India tax officials search edtech UpGrad offices
Officials from India’s GST tax department are searching the offices of UpGrad, an edtech unicorn that counts Temasek, James Murdoch’s Lupa Systems and World Bank’s...
FedML raises $11.5 to combine MLOps tools with a decentralized AI compute network
Interest in AI among the enterprise continues to rise, with one recent survey finding that nearly two-thirds of companies plan to increase or maintain their...
UK provisionally approves Broadcom’s $69B VMware acquisition
The U.K.’s competition authority has said that it plans to greenlight Broadcom’s $69 billion bid for virtualization software giant VMware. The news comes exactly a week...
Reliance-backed Dunzo defers staff pay again amid funding search
Dunzo, a hyperlocal delivery startup in India, is postponing employee salaries for a month and intends to settle remaining dues from the previous month also...